Founder and President of Solid Rock Kingdom Church, Apostle John Okoriko has made a shocking revelation on circumstances that led to his church’s decision to end admitting mentally unstable people to his church facilities for healing.
Solid Rock Kingdom Church Headquarters called The Capitol Temple located at MKPAT Enin Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State, and the satellite brand in Eket called Life Tabernacle were very popular healing locations where people of all kinds of sicknesses were taken to for healing and deliverance In the early 90s and early 2000s.
Cases of mentally deranged individuals taken to Solid Rock for healing were very common, and those who frequently passed by the church would hear violent sounds from mentally ill inmates who were chained to pillars and kept under courses of prayers and fasting. And reports were very common of people receiving their full deliverance and recovery from all manner of illness including psychiatric disorders.
During a Bible study class on Sunday, 3rd August 2025, a curious worshipper asked Apostle Okoriko why the church no longer hosts sick inmates in their facilities across the state. The worshipper asked, “Apostle when I joined this church in early 2000s we used to have a lot of mad people and other sick people in the church premises at Ibekwe in Mkpat Enin Local Government Area. And they would stay for few days or weeks and eventually get healed and leave the church premises after prayers and fasting”.
The worship questioned, “Sir, recently we no longer have those mentally challenged people kept here for healing, no more chains on pillars reserved for sick people and the camping of sick people has reduced, does it mean that the power of God no longer flow to heal or any other reason?”.
In his response, Apostle Okoriko linked the pause on camping of sick inmates, especially psychiatric patients to government regulatory agencies. He argued that the healing power of God is not in short supply in the church, but that new policies, government regulatory bodies had persuaded the church to find other means of attending to sick people, especially mentally ill persons, as against camping in the same location where other worshippers are worshipping.
Okoriko said “thank you for that question. You are right that we used to have a lot of sick people camping in our big centres, especially mentally unstable people, we had them all over the place in chains and we did fasting for and with them. Many of them were healed and would leave after some time”.
Speaking further the man of God said “but it came to a time that we had various visits by regulatory authorities mostly from ministry of health, and they advised that the conditions we kept inmates especially in the midst of other people was not very good, recall we used to have mentally ill people on chains even at the rear of the church hall and some times they would disturb when the service were ongoing, so Ministry of Health advised that keeping those people in the midst of other people was not healthy, and was risky, because truly there were cases that those people could loose the chains and run amok causing injuries and destroying things. We had to obey the government and ended admitting inmates to camp in the church premises. But we still visit such people in their houses and hospitals to pray for them. That power, that anointing and grace from God is still available and at work”. He concluded.
